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How to deal with existing questions when new site gets approved

Proposal: Spryker Suppose we manage to get the proposed Spryker Site approved. How would we collect and steer already existing Spryker related questions to the new site? There are already some fine ...
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How can I help this proposal get beyond the commitment phase?

Proposal: Synthetic Biology Although this proposal is making good progress garnering the numbers of committed users needed to make it to private beta, it is still lagging behind in terms of committers ...
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Ways to promote this site within the community

Proposal: Materials Modeling Currently, for this proposal, even though the number of followers has almost reached the requirement, the numbers of questions with score 10+ is far from that needed to ...
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Is this idea acceptable for helping to promote new site?

We are trying to launch a SE site on Operations Research (OR) and Analytics. We very quickly got the required number of followers and up-voted questions in the Definition phase, and very quickly got ...
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How can we get the last five 200+ rep users?

Proposal: Ukrainian Language As of today, we have 397/200 committers in total 95/100 committers with 200+ rep on any other site 100% commitment score, based on committers' activity on all ...
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How to promote my Telecommunications Q&A proposal to StackExchange members?

I find it difficult to get people onboard for the Telecommunications Q&A: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/104688/telecommunications The problem is mainly because most of my experts ...
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Promote Agriculture & Farming

Proposal: Agriculture & Farming Well... Ag&F has now been proposed for 29 days. So far, we have 9 followers. Not impressive, you say? I agree. Unfortunately. How can we promote this ...
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How can we draw more attention to Literature?

Proposal: Literature We've reached the Commitment stage! Finally the Literature proposal has the required number of questions with a score of 10 or more in order to advance to the next phase in its ...
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People who are visiting this proposal's page! Please, notice this discussion

Proposal: Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry The commitment phase has just started. I've made you familiar with the whole process earlier. You just have two tasks in this phase. Commit to ...
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Is there an "ad graphic" smaller than default 300x250?

I would like to use the "share" ads/graphics, but the 300x250 is a bit big for my site/context. Are there narrower versions available? At the moment I've just adjusted the width="300" height="250" (...
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A Community Promotion Ad might help boost the commitment level of the Retrocomputing proposal

Proposal: Retrocomputing Has anyone considered doing a Community Promotion Ad for this group? The commitments have been steadily increasing to about 150, but this has slowing down lately. ...
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Filmmaking Q&A advert does not reflect the new size

Just ran into this on Movies & TV and thought someone should know. Not sure if this is the best place for this specific question. Notice the text appears squished and the votes bar on the bottom ...
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I advertise this proposal on ELU

Proposal: Language Learning ELU SIne ELL has graduated, I place it there too ELL You can go there and upvote it. 6 upvotes will make it be shown on the ad panel.
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How often are the ads updated?

On every proposal there is a link to a PNG file (via "Share This" button, see screenshot by @BlasSoriano), which may be used to advertise the proposal. I always assumed these files update ...
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Can we create Health community ads to accelerate the proposal growth?

Can we post community ads to various related SE sites (e.g. Biology, Chemistry), so the number of people interested in Health can grow? As it seems the Commitment stage is very slow (like 1 person ...
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Should Product Design be split from this site or will there be engineering design included?

Proposal: Engineering I am wondering if I should start a product design site on stack exchange. Will the engineering site include a section on this? The process of an engineer is much different than ...
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Retrieving users and posts from the previous proposal

Proposal: Vi and vim The previous proposal was one of the fastest to complete definition and commitment (at least, some of that proposal's discussions said so). Yet this one seems to be moving at a ...
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Why isn't Area51 committed to the answers and tone that is set in its FAQ?

From the FAQ: Help sites get off the ground by defining the types of questions that are wanted, recruiting a critical mass of experts, and committing to the site's success. This is false. ...
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Jolla and SailfishOS [duplicate]

I've noticed that https://together.jolla.com/ is based on StackExchange websites, but is not in the SE network. It would be great if this site would also be a part of SE or if there would be a Q&A ...
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Should we advertise this proposal on other Korean-languege forums?

Proposal: Korean Language and Usage I'm not a speaker of Korean, but I'd love to be, so I'm naturally very excited for this proposal. I linked the Stack Exchange proposal onto the /r/Korean sub last ...
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Overview of Site (Pakistan)

Proposal: Pakistan I am thinking about a site where people can ask matters related to Pakistan. My nationality is Pakistani and I want to propose Pakistan. I want people can discuss and ask ...
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Vote for the Woodworking ad in the Home Improvement Community Ads

Proposal: Woodworking I've made some Woodworking candidate ads for Home Improvement.SE. If any woodworkers are active there, please vote for them! I've updated the link to point to the 2015 ...
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How can we promote the woodworking site?

Proposal: Woodworking I think the woodworking site is going to need more momentum in order to get off the ground and I'd like to start an effort to better promote it. What are some ways we can ...
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besides email, are you notified when a site status changes? -- (commitment stage, private beta, etc.)

I usually am on a stack exchange site far more often then I check my email. Are you also notified by the inbuilt notification bar on the top-left? (Like when someone answers your question on another ...
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Spread the word [duplicate]

We're almost there, use the share link to invite friends to vote and follow this proposal Proposal: Embedded Programming and Design
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Is it OK to promote a Proposal in related SE meta sites?

Proposal: Animation May I advertise this proposal in related SE meta sites and proposals? e.g. Gamedev, Movies, Audio Video Production, Graphic Design etc.?
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how to get new questions voted

Proposal: Italian Language & Usage I think we are doing fine as far as the number of followers is concerned (although I admit the increase pace has slowed down somewhat), but the problem of ...
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Is a notification sent out to tell followers that the proposal moved from the definition phase to the commit phase?

Proposal: Genealogy & Family History Is a notification sent out to tell followers of a proposal that it moved from the definition phase to the commit phase? If a notification isn't sent then I ...
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Can an email be sent to the previous Genealogy committers?

Proposal: Genealogy and Family History The current Genealogy and Family History proposal was created after the previous proposal was closed for having been around too long. We would like to contact ...
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Prompting Area 51 proposals

Any suggestions for ways to prompt an Area 51 proposal to existing SE users that appear to have an active interest in the topic based on answers, questions, and comments on existing SE sites? ...
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Do users have to register a full SX account in order for their "follows" to count?

I've had a lot of people I've reached out to report to me that they have "followed" my proposal to help support it. Although, my following level still seemed pretty low. So, I recruited a friend to ...
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Don't tell me that a proposal is "over halfway to beta" unless it's meaningful

A few minutes ago, I recieved an email which read (in part) On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Stack Exchange Area 51 wrote: The proposal you've committed to is over halfway to beta! ...
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Are there tools for in-person promotion of a proposal?

I'm going to a convention soon that's populated with the target audience for an Area51 proposal I'd like to promote. I'd love to have some sort of card or handbill that I can hand to people I meet, ...
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Proposal advertising on other Stack Exchange sites

I just noticed an advert on Stack Overflow for a Biology proposal on Area 51. Since I have zero interest in biology I guess there's two possibilities: it is an automated thing that randomly selects ...
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Please post this commitment-renewal announcement [closed]

Proposal: 3D Graphics, Modeling & Applications Hi there, I was wondering if someone could post this announcement on the 3D graphics site: (Start announcement) Attention, committed users: We have ...
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How to help a proposal enter public beta

Proposal: 3D Graphics, Modeling & Applications How can we, as committed users, help a proposed site get out of the commitment stage and into public beta? Posting on forums? Emailing our friends? ...
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How to promote the Bitcoin & Crypto-currency proposal to high-reputation users?

Proposal: Bitcoin & Crypto-currency The Bitcoin & Crypto-currency proposal has been gaining commitments rapidly recently due to promotion on the Bitcoin forums. However, the overwhelming ...
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